2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

Friday, 10:00 A.M. – 11:30 A.M.
La Galerie 5 (2nd Floor)
3040 Baby-Boomer Culture I: Narrating the Lives of Baby Boomers,
Chair: Shawn Young, Michigan State University
"First Person Account of the Civil Rights Movement"
Lindon Ratliff, Delta State University
"A Lifetime Burning in Every Moment: Memory, Story and Life Review
Documented in Narrative and Video"
Terry Lee, Christopher Newport University
"Iota Rho Alpha: A Baby-Boomer Goes Greek"
Shirley Sciacca, Marquette University
"On the Road with Joyce Johnson"
Cynthia Bartels, Missouri Western State University
Preservation Hall Studio 10 (2nd Floor)
3041 Children's Literature & Culture VI: Fantasy
Chair: Jeff Spicer, Virginia Tech
FRIDAY
10:00 – 11:30 A.M.
"Eden, Babel and a Garden in Oxford: The Symbolic Geography of His Dark
Materials "
Heather Cyr, Queen's University
"C.S. Lewis in the Age of the Internet: from ‘God’s Storyteller’ to ‘Satan’s Tool’"
Marnie Jones, University of North Florida
Lauren McAllister, University of North Florida
"’The wand is only as good as the wizard’: Wands as Instruments of Consumer
Culture and Institutional Control in Harry Potter”"
Caroline Spruill, Radford University
"Light Fantastic: Terry Pratchett and the legacy of C.S. Lewis"
Jeff Spicer, Virginia Tech.
Beauregard (5th Floor)
3042 British Popular Culture III: Shakespeare and Film: The Merchant of
Venice
Chair: Maureen Thum, University of Michigan
"Godfather IV: Al Pacino as Shylock in Michael Radford’s The Merchant of
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